A Legend In His Own Minefield

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A Beautiful Sight to Behold

A Beautiful Sight to Behold

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John Mendelssohn
Feb 16, 2015
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The weird thing about the tip of Tenerife’s celebrated volcano El Teide being the highest point in Spain is that it’s in Spain only politically, Tenerife being something like 800 miles south and west of Cadiz. Becuase the missus and I had ridden the cable car to the top on neither of our two previous visits, and she was quietly aggrieved, we drove up th…

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